Chinese New Year celebrations

This week it was Chinese New Year so we decided to celebrate! We all wore something red. A few of us found some amazing Chinese outfits! 

We tried our hand at writing some Chinese symbols. Using gold paint and brushes we concentrated hard and made some beautiful words. We wrote "prosperity", "sun", "mountain", "love" "moon" and "banana"!

We also had some stories and made Chinese dragons and for lunch we made noodles and practiced using chopsticks. This was harder than it looked! After lunch we tried some new fruits, lychees and Chinese pears.

Happy Chinese New Year!

                        

Christmas party

This week (20th December) was our last session before Christmas and the last session of the year, so we had a Christmas Party to celebrate.  We decorated balloons with stickers and drawings and made little mice out of walnut shell halves and felt for ears and tails.  You put a marble underneath the shell and then the mouse will slide across the floor! (tutorial here)

We finished off with a bring and share Christmas lunch - which was yummy!  Lots of lovely cakes (amongst all the healthy vegetables and hummus of course..)  The only downside was we didn't get a chance to play Twister - maybe next year!

We will be meeting again on the 3rd January 2012 - please email us for details tauntonhomeeducation@yahoo.com  And, in the meantime we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

   

   

         

       

Learning about Thanksgiving

This week we had an American theme, we learnt about Thanksgiving and made lunch together.
We made little paper boats and on the sails we wrote something that the children said they were thankful for - which went from "making gingerbread men yesterday" to "seeing my friends"!
We then made pizzas together. We each brought our own bases, and covered them with various ingredients, and of course cooked them and ate them!
Michelle also read a book with some of the children and talked about the origins of Thanksgiving in America.
After lunch we had another great walk around the beautiful grounds of Fyne Court.